It’s been 26 years since Lin “Spit” Newborn and Daniel Shersty were killed in the desert outside Las Vegas after being drawn out there under false pretenses by a group of neo-Nazi skinheads. It’s been 26 years since parents lost their sons, a child lost his father, and a community lost one of its guiding […]
Category Archives: Production
A quick production update as we head into spring
If things have seemed quiet around here since our last update following our December filming dates, that’s because the work that’s been happening on Murdered on the Fourth of July since then (following a little holiday break) has been less visible but very important, including: Ingesting, syncing, and transcribing filmed interviews Creating a “paper edit” […]
Las Vegas filming, week 1
Last week, we assembled our Murdered on the Fourth of July team–director/producer Pj Perez, co-producer Roudi Boroumand and cinematographer Winston Moon–in Las Vegas for a whirlwind three days of filming, with the aid of sound mixer Ty Peterson and production assistant Mario Martin. We crisscrossed the Las Vegas Valley to film interviews with five subjects […]